The Genius of Messi
I like the game. I understand the rules. I know some of the names. I will watch on television from time to time. I have a casual feel for the pace and rhythms and passion. But that’s about it. When I watch highlights on television of Lionel Messi playing, see him dribble [...]
Life Amid the Ruins – BusinessWeek
After the Greek government accepted the IMF bailout, officials began to impose not only reforms but punishments. Pension plans and wages were cut by 15 percent to 20 percent. Value-added and excise taxes were raised twice. Bank accounts were opened up, and names were named: Those 57 doctors who didn't [...]
Market reacts to Eircom debt fears – The Irish Times – Sat, Jun 26, 2010
In May, Moody’s Investors Service cut the rating of the telecoms group’s €3.3 billion senior secured loans by one level to four steps below investment grade at B1. The €350 million of second-lien debt due in 2016 was cut to Caa1, [...]
Multi-homed iptables firewall
Multi-homed iptables firewall
The following iptables firewall is suited for a dual-homed firewall. In this example, eth1 is the internal LAN interface and eth0 is the public Internet interface. All outbound and return traffic is allowed from both the internal LAN and the firewall itself. All incoming traffic originating from the Internet is dropped.
Note: [...]
February 2010: Excerpt of Star: How Warren Beatty Seduced America | Vanity Fair
Beatty had put together an extraordinary cast and crew for Reds, a vast undertaking—far bigger than even the now bloated Ishtar. He was very shrewd about talent, and about people with talent, particularly May, whom he knew as well as he knew anyone. [...]
Washington's I.T. Guy
Malamud has taken it upon himself to see that all public information — from court decisions to financial disclosures to Army training tapes — is actually, well, public. Malamud, 51, has worked as a network administrator, run technology startups, and taught at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab and in Japan. He has [...]
FEED Magazine
Welcome to the archives of the web magazine FEED. Launched in May of 1995, it was among a handful of "webzines"–as they were once called–in existence then. FEED tried to re-imagine how we would read and write in the digital age even as we dedicated ourselves to the craft of writing, a craft we [...]
NFL's lockout-likelihood plot thickens
The opinion by retiring Justice John Paul Stevens ended the owners' effort to eliminate the legal rights that have allowed the players to achieve enormous increases in bonuses, salaries and benefits in antitrust cases filed by Freeman McNeil and Reggie White in the early '90s.
So far, that's the only setback the owners [...]
ESPN NFL's lockout-likelihood plot thickens
The stakes in this legal proceeding are nearly as high as they were in the American Needle case. The players' challenge to the television contracts is a dramatic counterattack to the owners' lockout plans, and it's the latest chapter in the players' efforts to preserve and build on the advances they [...]
Ylmf OS – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ylmf OS is a free software Linux distribution derived from the Ubuntu operating system.[1][2] Its user interface closely resembles that of Microsoft Windows XP.[3] The distribution was originally not available in the English language, though shortly after the initial release in late 2009[4] an English language version of Ylmf [...]
NVIDIA DRIVERS 197.13 WHQL
GeForce/ION Driver Release 197
Version:
197.13 WHQL
Release Date:
2010.03.25
Operating System:
Windows XP
Language:
English (U.S.)
File Size:
78.2 MB
(tags: @2dl)
Extras – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Extras is a British sitcom about extras working on film sets and in theatre. The series was co-produced by the BBC and HBO, and is created, written, and directed by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, both of whom also star in it. Extras charts the lives of Andy Millman, his [...]
Ride Along with Mitch
Kitchell recalled sitting outside Daniels’s transition office after the 2004 election in the weeks before his swearing-in. “These very accomplished businesspeople would come in and they’d be waiting for the governor-elect. They’d say, ‘Yeah, I’d love to help him but I just don’t think I can do it at this point in [...]
Something's Got to Give
Jughead's eerie composure, it must be said, often alarms his supervisors. When the computer projects that two planes are about to fly closer than three miles, a Conflict Alert buzzer goes off and the two blips begin flashing on the scope. Whenever the Conflict Alert — or as the lavatorial-minded controllers call [...]
Thomas' final stat line: a crying shame
There's Wilt's 100-point game and Oscar's triple-double season in 1962. There's Russell's championship-ring collection that dresses every finger and another. And, of course, there's Jordan's 866 consecutive games scoring in double figures.
These are some of the NBA's most untouchable feats, but perhaps none of them measures up to Isiah [...]
Madeira Bay Resort
The brand new Madeira Bay Resort is located on Florida’s West Coast, in beautiful Madeira Beach, Florida — just north of St. Pete Beach and south of Clearwater Beach.
The Madeira Bay Resort overlooks Florida’s scenic intracoastal waterways and is across the street from the pristine white-sand beaches of the Gulf of Mexico. Enjoy [...]
The Mega-Money World Of MegaUpload | TorrentFreak
In 2001 Schmitz pulled off a huge stock market bluff which netted him a small fortune. After buying shares worth hundreds of thousands of dollars in the almost bankrupt LetsBuyIt.com, he announced that he would invest 50 million euros in the company, but in reality he didn’t have the [...]
While Drinking… Bartender, Can I Get Another Round?
My goal was to grab tunes from different genres. I was able to do that on the first disc so I wanted to do it again on the second. We are spanning the spectrum once again. Rock, metal, ska, blues/jazz, country, and punk.
Putting this together was fun. I [...]
Lincoln's Great Depression
Such labels can help us begin to reckon with Lincoln. Most basically, "clinical depression" means it was serious, no mere case of the blues. Someone who has had two episodes of major depression has a 70 percent chance of experiencing a third. And someone who's had three episodes has a 90 percent chance [...]
How a Soccer Star Is Made
When the boys start at the youth academy, Rooi said, they are attached to the ideal of Ajax, whose senior team packs in 50,000-plus fans for its home games and still occupies a mythic place in world soccer because of the innovative style it established in the 1960s — a [...]